We had our Sewing Guild picnic and our speaker taught us how to make polymer clay buttons and beads. I have never been a fan of the polymer clay but once I got going I can see a lot of possibilities!!! I will show you my creations next time. This clay is pretty cool stuff and some of the buttons are really neat. This can do wonders for a sewing project.
Today is sewing and Dolma day!!!
The grape leaves are really coming so I'm going to make a big batch today. yum!!!!! If you have grapes these are just wonderful.
Dolma's
- fresh grape leaves, wash well
- ground beef do not cook meat so you will mix raw meat with cooked rice
- cooked rice, equal portions of meat and rice
- lots of fresh herbs, seasoned salt, pepper, garlic, hot sauce whatever you like!!!
- mix rice and beef and herbs take a couple of tablespoons and place on grape leaf, roll like a package, place in cake pan seam side down.
- mix a can of chicken broth and juice of one lemon pour over rolls, grate some lemon zest over the rolls for more flavor cover with foil
- bake at 350 for an hour
- For the sauce I thicken up some chicken broth add lemon juice and serve over the dolma's
This is not an exact recipe because it depends on how many leaves you have, today I will make about 40 so I'll use 2=3 lbs of meat and cook up 2 cups of rice and go from there.
Have a great week, back to stabbin rags........
